Exam question 3 · Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more

Identify the principal means whereby an exchange bureau derives its remuneration.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, principal, exchange bureau, bureau · What happens: identify, mean, derive, remunerate · To what, where: remuneration

This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» of the money course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 principal	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	acl:relcl
5	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	9 derives	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bureau	det
7	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bureau	compound
8	bureau	bureau	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 derives	nsubj
9	derives	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 remuneration	nmod:poss
11	remuneration	remuneration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 derives	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present	the principal			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	derive	present	a exchange bureau	bureau's remuneration	whereby property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location remuneration=Theme
4	remunerate		bureau			nom remuneration «possession transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By furnishing customers a rate less favourable than the true rate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 furnishing	mark
2	furnishing	furnish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 favourable	advcl
3	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 furnishing	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rate	det
5	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 furnishing	obj
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 favourable	advmod
7	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 rate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rate	det
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rate	amod
11	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 favourable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	furnish	gerund		customers					tree rules

Option 2

By printing additional foreign banknotes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 printing	mark
2	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 banknotes	amod
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 banknotes	amod
5	banknotes	banknote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 printing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	gerund		additional foreign banknotes					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banknote=Theme

Option 3

By receiving payment from the airport authority alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 receiving	mark
2	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 receiving	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 authority	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 authority	det
6	airport	airport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 authority	compound
7	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 payment	nmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 receiving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund		payment		the airport authority		alone property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent payment=Theme from authority=Source

Option 4

By charging customers in gold for each transaction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 charging	mark
2	charging	charge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 charging	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charging	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 transaction	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 transaction	det
8	transaction	transaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	gerund		customers		gold		for each transaction	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent customer=Patient for transaction=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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